Los Angeles Clippers’ Tobias Harris (34) celebrates after scoring with teammate Danilo Gallinari during a game against the Denver Nuggets earlier this season. The two forwards are having career years, averaging 21 and 19.6 respective points apiece. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

OK, yes, obviously there are a few others in the talent-rich NBA, but this season Clippers forwards Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari are among the best.

As of Thursday morning, they’d spent the ninth-most time together of any tandem, sharing the floor for 1,019 minutes, according to NBA.com/stats.

Their combined shooting percentage – 47.4 percent – when they’re on the court together is better than all but three pairs who have played at least 1,000 minutes together. (The others: Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson, 49.6 percent; Anthony Davis and Jrue Holiday, 48.8 percent; and LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan, 48.4 percent.)

Harris and Gallinari – nicknamed “Tobiallo” by fan podcast Locked on Clippers – also are the only duo among that 11-tandem group shooting better than 40 percent from 3-point range when they’re both in the game, with a combined percentage of 41.4 percent.

And they’ve found their way to the free-throw line (684 times) most often, where they’ve collectively shot better (84.4 percent) than any of the league’s other most prolific duos.

“They’re just really hard to guard,” Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown said before Tuesday’s game at Staples Center, where the Clippers lost 119-113 despite a combined 42 points from Harris and Gallinari (who had 21 apiece).

“One of them always has an advantage,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said at Thursday’s practice, where his team was preparing for Friday’s road game against the Phoenix Suns.

“That’s what we explained before the year: ‘I can’t tell you which before the game, (but) you’ll know pretty quickly, and I guarantee you during the game, teams will switch,’ ” added Rivers, noting that Philadelphia did it at least three times, and that some teams do it following every timeout.

“I said, ‘It’s the same thing … the big guy can’t guard you because he’s too slow, and the small guy can’t guard you because he’s too small, and you guys just have to figure that out.’

“And they do, they do a great job of it.”

That both players are having career years is perhaps largely because they’ve been able to play so well off each other.

The 6-foot-9 Harris is averaging 21 points, 8.1 rebounds, and shooting 45.7 percent from the floor and 42.1 percent from behind the arc, all career highs for the cerebral 26-year-old from Dix Hills, NY.

Gallinari – the 6-10 Italian who grew up playing point guard – is averaging 19.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and shooting 45.6 percent from the field and 46 percent from 3-point range. Those also are all career highs for the 30-year-old.

“I think it’s not just because of me and Tobias, but because of what the team is doing for us,” Gallinari said. “They run a lot of plays for us and they always find us in the right spots. Our bigs are screening for us a lot so they make our life easier. But it’s tough to guard me and Tobias because one of us either has a small guy on us or big guy, so it’s not easy to guard us.”

ALL-STAR RETURNS

The first returns are in, and the Clippers are not represented among the top vote-getters for the 68th NBA All-Star Game, which will take place Feb. 17 in Charlotte, N.C.

The Lakers’ LeBron James, a 14-time All-Star, leads all players with 1,083,363 votes.

LeBron/Steph and Giannis/Kyrie lead the first returns of #NBAAllStar Voting 2019 presented by @Google!

Former Clippers forward Blake Griffin (with 192,694 votes) and guard Chris Paul (101,104) rank in the top 10 in their respective conferences. At No. 10 among frontcourt candidates in the West: DeMarcus Cousins, who has yet to step on the court as he rehabs from Achilles tendon surgery, with 92,977 votes.

Mirjam Swanson covers the Clippers and the NBA for the Southern California News Group. Previously, she wrote about LeBron James and the rest of the Dream Team at the 2004 Olympics (where, yes, they took bronze) and Tiger Woods’ last (for now) major championship. Most recently, she’s covered city government, education and the occasional bear in a backyard.